Word: screed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learned woman and six learned men* had chosen this Plan from 58 submitted to them by Publisher Hearst's contest editors. The 58 had been weeded from a field of 71,248 plans ranging from a jokester's one word, "Water," to a verbosifier's screed of 50,000 words...
...Work did not reply. Instead, he approved an outburst by his publicity chief, onetime (1919-23) Governor Henry J. Allen of Kansas. The latter referred to the Raskob letter as "another screed expressing . . . mock indignation"; accused Mr. Raskob of "deliberately dragging in the issues of religious intolerance...
...Magruder retracted no jot or tittle of his article but did say that certain "Sic 'Em Boys" (copy-starved newspaper correspondents) had ridiculously misrepresented his attitude when they reported him scowling and gesturing at news of Secretary Wilbur's alleged ire. Washington stirred in anticipation of another screed from him, soon to be published in the Saturday Evening Post...
John Drink water, author of Abraham Lincoln, Mary Stuart, Oliver Crom well, Robert E. Lee and other dramatic histories, has completed a libretto for an opera, based on the life of Robert Burns, eternal Scots laureate poet. This screed is now in the hands of composer Ernest Austin, an Englishman, known chiefly for his colossal organ tone-poem, Pilgrim's Progress, in twelve huge parts. In the new work, Austin plans to make use of many Scotch folk-tunes, including several of the familiar melodies now associated with Burns' popular lyrics...
...Revolutionary days and to show " that the American Revolution was merely a civil war between English people on on both sides and their German King." Institutions formed to improve relations between the United States and Great Britain are a special point of attack in Mr. Hirshfield's screed...